Ian Dury Quotes
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
Hamdi Ulukaya
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
A. R. Ammons
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
Olivier Theyskens
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Felicia Day
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
Orson Welles
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
Taylor Schilling
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
Oscar Levant
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Jack McDevitt
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
Taylor Swift
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
Annie Besant
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.
Alan King
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Was it a threat, or a well-meant warning?
Carolyn Keene
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
Phil Lesh
Grateful Dead
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How can you ban language, words? How're words offensive? And why should I have to tolerate YOUR interpretation? I'm the one using the word. ASK me how I'm using it, don't TELL me. And if you don't like the way I'm using it, so what? It's my right. It's my freedom of expression. Without that, we're nothing but slaves. My language, now fuck off!!!
John Joseph Lydon
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I'm spasticus autisticus.
Ian Dury
